February 18, 2011

Categories:

The Obama administration issued its first U.N. Security Council veto Friday, when U.S. Ambassador Susan Rice voted alone against a resolution declaring Israeli settlement activity to be illegal.

The 14-1 vote failed after Rice raised her hand alone to vote in opposition to the resolution, which had several dozen co-sponsors, including the United Kingdom, France, Germany, Russia, Serbia, China, etc.

Rice said the U.S. vote against the resolution should not be misunderstood as U.S. support for Israeli settlement activity.

"On the contrary, we reject in the strongest possible terms the legitimacy of continued settlement activity," Rice told the Security Council after the vote. "For more than four decades, [Israeli settlement activity] has undermined security ... corroded hopes for peace and security ... it violates international commitments and threatens prospects for peace."

The British, Russian and Chinese ambassadors were among those who rose to speak in favor of the failed resolution after the vote.

Though the U.S. vetoed the measure, given the seeming unanimity of other countries supporting the resolution, coupled with Rice's unhappy statement after her veto, Israel appeared increasingly isolated, as its neighborhood is in turmoil and changing rapidly in ways the United States cannot control.

Share this Article

Reader Comments (67)

Pages

1

If the world were just, the next time the US goverment tries to push through an anti-Iranian UN Resolution, I hope the Russkies veto it and say, "this resolution risks hardening the positions of both sides."
President Obama: Please proceed to AIPAC to pick up your campaign contribution. Another disgraceful day for the US.

Americans recognize that China is rising while we are sinking. China’s infrastructure, such as high-speed trains and ultra-modern airports, exposes the shabbiness of our falling-down bridges. Of course China is not handicapped as we are by the Israel-Firsters’ domination of our government and media as shown by our veto of the UN resolution condemning Israeli settlements in illegally occupied Arab land. The billions we give in foreign aid to Israel each year are minuscule compared to Israel's overall cost. Historically, due to our support of Israel's illegal brutal occupations, we have suffered acts of revenge such as the Arab oil embargo in the 70's, terrorist attacks on our embassies abroad, etc, leading up to the two attacks on the World Trade Center. The masterminds of both WTC attacks said they were motivated by our sponsorship of Israel. Traditionally the golden recruiting tool of the radicals has been our support of Israel's illegal occupations and persecutions. This is the core issue which swells their ranks and inspires worldwide anti-US terrorism. General David Petraeus in a statement 3/16/10 before the Senate Armed Services Committee said, “The conflict foments anti-American sentiment due to a perception of US favoritism for Israel. Arab anger over the Palestinian question limits the strength and depth of US partnerships with governments and peoples in CENTCOM’s area of operations and weakens the legitimacy of moderate regimes in the Arab World.” The New York Times (6/6/10) reports that in an interview 5/28/10, General David Petraeus stated, "If you don't achieve progress in a just and lasting Mideast peace, the extremists are given a stick to beat us with." The Israel-Firsters have dragged us into all these endless bankrupting wars with the many enemies of Israeli expansionism who are now given even more sticks to beat us with by this UN veto.

Susan Rice’s argument for the proposed veto is smooth but deeply flawed.
Her argument is that it is preferable that the two parties work out their differences rather than have international pressure be applied.
To me this is the same as the police responding to a burglary in progress call from a terrified homeowner who has a robber in the house and the robber has a gun and it is willing to use it.
The Police (the international community and/or the US) arrives and evaluates the situation and respond by saying that we will wait here by the driveway and we want you the robber (the settlers) and the homeowner (the Palestinians) to just negotiate your differences and let us know when you’ve decided what the robber can steal. And, Oh….by the way, don’t give in to the potential for violence because the robber (the settlers) is armed and dangerous and may well kill you!
Susan Rice’s and the US argument breaks down because the Israeli’s refuse to negotiate in good faith and to stop the settlements. So, given that the Palestinians have no legal rights inside the West Bank and the Israeli’s show no signs of stopping, to say that it will work out better if less pressure is put on Israel is just basically ludicrous.
The settlements are illegal.
The settlements are the big roadblock to peace talks.
The Israelis aren’t going to stop the settlements through direct negotiations, through behind-the-scenes pressure from the US or just unilaterally because a just people would stop committing crimes just out of common sense.
So the United Nations is attempting to show through the collective weight of all their members that Israel must stop. Makes sense to me.
What doesn’t make sense is to think that the Israelis will stop settlements if they are just left alone and not pressured.
This is simply the US bowing to political pressure to support Israel no matter how badly they behave.
Will Obama/Clinton/Rice knuckle under to raw political pressure?
Or will they finally draw a line and go on record that the settlements are illegal.
If the US does get rolled again by Israel, then Susan Rice’s argument needs to get turned back on the Israeli’s. OK, we vetoed the resolution. Now what are you going to do? Or will the US again get nothing for their blind support of continued illegal settlements?

Posted By: Susan Rice’s argument for the proposed veto is smooth but deeply flawed.
Her argument is that it | February 18, 2011 at 05:15 PM

Rozen carrying water for Susan Rice. How predictable. The Arab revolutions have nothing to do with Israel. The Israelis stopped building houses and kindergartens for 10 months and got nothing--zilch, nada zip in return. The PA needs to get its head on straight. Face-to-face negotiations or nothing.

"Hey, Jihadi Will, How are you feeling this afternoon? Still spouting your jihadi terror-loving Islamist propaganda I see. Curious: do you ever post without a cut-and-paste?"
Such a telling response: name-calling and personal attacks, as opposed to actually discussing the topic. I score your tired vitriolic rant a 2.5. Extra credit for the multiple use of "jihadi."

Hey, "1967 greenline,"
It's not personal attack if it's true. Jihadi Will is an Islamist supporter, a real lover of the mullahs. He wants Iran to develop nuclear weapons so that there will be a war in the ME. He hates Jews and consistently calls the "greedy' or "grubbing." Cool that you support that though. Nice one--extra points, even.

This "should not be misunderstood." No, I understand it quite well. Until we pour out into the streets and camp in Columbus Circle nothing will change. AIPAC will continue to define our policy in the Middle East. How sad!

It is too bad for Obama and America to use VETO power to allow Israel to grab more and more Palestinians land and keep them under the brutal and apartheid occupation for ever. It is time now for America to spell out clearly what they want in the middle-east? Continue to fool the Arab masses providing arms and shelters to the dictators, autocrats and kings or honor their human rights?
Time has also come for America to decide our own interest first rather than the most brutal and apartheid regime, who is using us against our interest. We must be more careful looking to the Arab uprising and their resolve. Also 2-nation theory is dead long ago and soon the masses will demand for a single united Israel or Palestine with equal rights for all.

It is too bad for Obama and America to use VETO power to allow Israel to grab more and more Palestinians land and keep them under the brutal and apartheid occupation for ever. It is time now for America to spell out clearly what they want in the middle-east? Continue to fool the Arab masses providing arms and shelters to the dictators, autocrats and kings or honor their human rights?
Time has also come for America to decide our own interest first rather than the most brutal and apartheid regime, who is using us against our interest. We must be more careful looking to the Arab uprising and their resolve. Also 2-nation theory is dead long ago and soon the masses will demand for a single united Israel or Palestine with equal rights for all.

I would only add, this is unfortunate,a dark day In the history of the United States of America!
I thought since US supported for the people of Egypt in their struggle against Mubarak, US administration would take some serious and constructive steps to reconcile between bother Israel and Palestine for thier co-existance paving way for 2 state theory.
But once again it's quite painful to know that nothing has been change in US foreign policy regarding Middle East!! As a peace broker US should have stayed impartial. I am afraid the impact of this Veto would be terrible in the Middle East!

To the poster at 5:19, 5:57, and 6:07: As an America-Firster, I am nauseated at the sight of our beloved country being destroyed by you greedy land-grabbing Israel-Firsters. Our support of Israel through this veto, even though we oppose Israel’s illegal land-grabbing, peace-preventing, settlement expansion, is the same as our initial support of Mubarak. WikiLeaks documented the duplicity, corruption and rapacious greed of Arab leaders who are puppets of the US/Israel alliance. Yet, although our values traditionally include support for democracy and freedom, we supported Mubarak, even after the protests began, because of pressure from the Israel-Firsters. We did see the light eventually and supported the protesters but we are still resented there because of our delay. This veto makes it clear to the world that not only is Palestine occupied by Zionists, we are too.

To 8:45 PM poster: For your information, I am opposed to nuclear weapons altogether. The recent NIE restates the fact that Iran has not even decided to go down that path, even though Israel has hundreds. You would never know that by listening to the land-stealing Israel-Firsters who incessantly tell us Iran is developing nuclear weapons and therefore call for war with Iran. Of course, thieves tend to be liars.

Ånd so -- the Obama administration strongly supports the anti-Israel resolution but nevertheless voted against it. WHY.
Perhaps because of the next logical step. The Security Council having found Israel guilty would then have to consider enforcement measures in the face of continued Israeli -- what is a favored term of the anti-Israel crowd? INTRANSIGENCE. Sanctions?
That would sure get a lot of support in Congress. Why not some armed forcce? Maybe even the snatching of Netanyahu?
That would go over well on Capitol Hill.
It is precisely the kind of comments Amb. Rice made that has kept the pot simmering since the armistice agreements of 1949 -- comments that indicate our policy, as noted by James G. McDonald, in a letter to Clark Cliffrord, August 24, 1949, ,is to make it possible for the Arabs to call the tune.
Well, it might be noted that the most anti-Israel presidents of the recent period, Carter and Bush 41, served only one WH term.
I'd say President Obama is on course to follow their example. And no, this is not the result of a particular lobby; I'd say it is the work of Higher Authority.

So, Jihadi Will, will you state unequivocally that you reject that Iran has a right to nuclear weapons? Can you do this without mentioning America's, or any other country's nuclear weapons? Without worrying about whether the Iranians have told you, or anyone else, that they are after them? I doubt it, given your support for the mullahs, but let's see.

To "we don't" : do you reject Israel's right to nuclear weapons? After all, this is what started the Middle East nuclear arms race. I would like to see all countries give up nuclear weapons. It is Israel which threatens Iran, not vice versa. The Wall Street Journal (7/8/09) reported that "an Israeli submarine believed to be carrying nuclear-tipped missiles" had moved towards Iran. Whereas Iran has not invaded another country since the late 18th century and occupies no one, Israel invades and attacks at will and illegally occupies Palestine and parts of Syria and Lebanon. Iranian President Ahmadinejad speaking at Columbia University 9/24/07 and elsewhere on American TV stated that he did not seek the destruction of the Israeli people but only wished for a change in their leadership so as to end their illegal occupations. Ahmadinejad said he would agree to any peace with Israel endorsed by the Palestinian people. He also said he was opposed to nuclear weapons.

I knew you couldn't do it JIhadi Will, Dr. cut-and-paste.
It's also cool how you quote arch terrorists such as Bin Laden, or Khaled Sheikh Mohammed, or Ahmadinejad to illustrate your deranged points.
And for the record, I fully support Israel's right to defend itself with conventional or nuclear weapons against any country that tries to wipe it off the map. Why do you deny some of Ahmadinejad's statements and parrot others?

Suggestion for the Israel lobby: someday soon, while you are done crowing about all your successes in buying our congress and bribing our gov't officials into voting against our own values and our own interests, you should read the comments on every news sight that is reporting this veto.
Granted it is clear that Drudge and Google news are trying to downplay it, but I would say 90% of the comments are against Israel and against this veto.
These are young people commenting on these pages. This is your future: more and more and more Americans aware and angry about your manipulation of our foreign policy. Deal with it.

very wise of Abbas to move forward. Next unilateral declaration for statehood. Why not? US set precedent with Kosovo. There are the reports that Obama Administration first made sweet promises then resorted to threats when Abbas stated he was moving forward with measure. Very telling.

very wise of Abbas to move forward. Next unilateral declaration for statehood. Why not? US set precedent with Kosovo. There are the reports that Obama Administration first made sweet promises then resorted to threats when Abbas stated he was moving forward with measure. Very telling.

When somebody says one thing and does the opposite, in U.S. we call him a ********ter. Obama criticizes Israel in words, but what he does is completely opposite. At a time when American government cannot find money for shelters for homeless war veterans, Obama sends billions to Israel. At a time when all countries joined in effort to stop illegal settlements - Obama puts veto, which has direct negative impact on national security of the U.S. How else you would call such actions if not a slaving for Israel?

Obama caves in to AIPAC lobby at the UN Security Council
This is not government by the people!
THIS IS THE ABANDONMENT OF AN ELECTED GOVERNMENT TO AN UNELECTED POLITICAL LOBBY ACTING FOR FOREIGN INTERESTS.
It is a corrupt surrender of all the democratic ideals for which America and the world fought for two world wars and for which millions died.
Barack Obama should be ashamed to face the world and the electorate.

Israel, hated by the world for its illegal occupations and persecutions, has succeeded in its goal to have America share this anti-Israel hatred. Lara Logan's rapists were yelling "Jew, Jew." The anti-Mubarak protesters carried signs of Mubarak with the Star of David across his face, and as reported by the AP 2/1, hanging from traffic lights in Cairo were effigies of Mubarak, on whose faces were the Star of David. At the same time, the pro-Mubarak thugs were busily justifying their beating of journalists saying they were Israeli spies trying to destabilize the country. A few years ago a neighbor of mine who had made a fortune in the clothes retail business retired to Israel. This is typical of what’s happening to our country. Israel-Firsters use our country as a cash cow and don’t care if it’s led to the slaughter after it’s drained. Our country is going down the drain. We can’t pay our bills, and the states will suffer more and more. You can’t get blood out of a turnip. The middle class is going the way of the dinosaurs but we will still borrow from China to pay for the wars the Israel-Firsters lie us into. The Israel-Firsters seem to want another Holocaust. They are dragging America down into the gutter with them, bankrupting us morally and financially with their never-ending wars against Islam for the sake of Zionist expansionism. One day soon Americans will wake up to what’s happened to our once-great country.

Rice and Obama should be put on trial for incompence and fraud. Once again, they are trying to play on both sides of the fence, they veto the resolution while at the same time claiming solidarity with Palestinian terrorists.
This weak, limp wristed administration has done more damage to the US than could've ever been possibly imagined.

Posted By: Rice and Obama should be put on trial for incompence and fraud. Once again, they are trying to play | February 19, 2011 at 09:00 AM

Too Bad
Shame on you Obama,
Disgrace on the United States
What do we expect from America?
You have just proved to the Young Generation in the Middle-East that you have no morality or principles
**** Freedom and Democracy Seeking

Obama has an extremely weak Middle East team advising him. Exception Burns, but who knows how well he is being listened to. The joke is and always has been that Dennis Ross is even part of this WH. Send him back to is Synagogue speaker series circuit. What a disaster. Let's hope they remember that Netanyahu prides himself as a Hasbora Expert. That translates in into transmitting disinformation...which Ross and a few others are most happy to bring to the table.

WHAT CHICKEN COWARDS TO BE AFRAID OF THE JEWISH REPRISAL. SHAME ON AMERICA FOR NOT HAVING THE DAMN GUTS TO VOTE FOR THIS RESOLUTION. ISRAEL EXTORTS BILLIONS FROM US, SPIES ON US, MURDERS OUR AMERICAN SAILORS, STARTS WARS AGAINST IT'S NEIGHBORS, STEALS THE PALESTINIANS LANDS, VIOLATES EVERY UN RESOLUTION AND OUR COWARDS IN DC DON'T HAVE THE BALLS TO DO WHAT IS RIGHT...THE SOONER SOMEONE NUKES ISRAEL OUT OF EXISTENCE THE BETTER THE WORLD WILL BE AS THEY ARE NOTHING BUT TROUBLE MAKERS AND WILL CONTINUE TO USE AMERICA FOR THEIR OWN PURPOSE

To Willbheard:
It's people like you who constantly attack Israel and the Jewish People that perpetuates the problems the Arabs are facing. Don't you remember that Saudi Arabia "arrested" a vulture for being a Israeli spy? Don't you recall that the shark attack off the Sinai was blamed by Egypt on the Mossad? You see Israel under every rock and behind every bush when in fact Israel just wants to be left alone, with peace and security for its people. The Arabs who raped the blonde haired, blue eyed Ms. Logan screamed "Jew Jew" because people like you want to blame the Jews for everything instead of accepting responsibility for your own actions. The despotic Arab governments are horribly corrupt but Ghaddafi blames Israel as he has his troops kill protesters and hundreds of other peaceful protesters are murdered in other Arab countries. So you just need to realize that the Arabs have real problems that can't be layed at the feet of Israel. The people are trying to fix them but are being repressed by their own governments, not Israel.

Rob Levi seems to think I'm the only one criticizing Israel. The New York Times 2/19/11 reported that yesterday more than 100 countries co-sponsored a UN resolution condemning Israeli settlements as illegal and calling for a halt to settlement building. The UN Security Council’s president Brazil pointed out that settlement construction is a continuing threat to peace, and international law requires that it be stopped. The European Union, which also supported the resolution, noted that settlement-building threatens the goal of a two-state solution. The 15-member UN National Security Council voted 14-1 to condemn Israeli settlements. The US, which like Palestine is occupied by Zionists, was the only vote pro-Israeli settlements.

Israel had worked jointly with the US in developing the Arrow anti-missle system as well as the Boost Phase Intercept program and the Tactical High Energy Laser program, in which a high-energy laser beam mounted on an airplane can be used to knock out incoming missles. Israel as the only democratic country in the Middle East, and the most effective ally in the entire world to halt the expansion of radical Islam.
Israel is America's only, reliable ally in the Middle East, and is the only nation there that publicly declares is support for America.
Israel has developed some of the best anti-terror units in the world. The Israeli methods are so effective that successive groups of FBI agents and other senior law enforcement officers from the United States arrive regularly to learn ways to improve our own local homeland security.
And if you have just accessed your voicemail, sent text messages or transmitted pictures through your mobile phone, you were using technologies developed -- again in Israel.
7 Nobel Prize winners are from Israel in it's 63 years of existence. All told, Jews account for 22% of all Nobel Prize recipients.
Now that I've answered your question will you please answer one of mine? Besides longer airport lines, name Palestinian accomplishments to America or the world in general in the same 63 year period please.

RobLevi contends Israelis are smart, but allowing insatiable greed to earn you the vengeful hatred of the world is just plain dumb. Israel is a massive intestinal tape worm parasitizing America. It can’t exist outside its host as shown by the UN vote. Without America, the UN would vote sanctions against this criminal state to force it to come into compliance with international law by ending its illegal occupations. America meanwhile is being sucked dry as we go bankrupt fighting all these wars against Islam which the Muslim-hating Israel-Firsters lie us into. RobLevi is correct about one thing. Our association with Israel has led to revenge attacks like 9/11 following which we were forced to become Fortress America patterned after Fortress Israel. This meant big bucks for the Israeli Security Industrial Complex.

So that means no, you can't name a single accomplishment that Palestinians have made in the last 63 years. Fortunately for you I thought of one. The Palestinians gave us Nation Dance. You remember, when those planes were crashing into the Twin Towers on 9/11 and all the Palestinians were out dancing in the streets, laughing and applauding. Well Done.

Ok, I've read this allegation that Palestinians were dancing in the street after 9/11 before. It is a favored tool by the Pro-Israel crowd. It is BS. The so called footage has been proven to be stock and could have come from anywhere. Of course it makes for a fantastic propaganda tool. Now the Lara Logan incident will be used ad Nauseum to Demonize Muslims and Arabs. We still don't know the full story of what happened. Yet the Pro-Israelis have learned their craft well. Shoot first and ask questions later. Why not focus on what we do know. The Palestinians led by Yasser Arafat, "the arch terrorist", held a nationwide blood drive for the victims of 9/11. The Egyptian people led by women intervened to rescue Lara Logan. All this doesn't change the fact that the Israeli Settlements are not only Illegal but immoral. "Thou shall not steal." Do those words ring a bell. Or, "You shall not covet your neighbors house; you shall not covet your neighbors wife, nor his manservant, nor his maidservant, nor his ox, nor his donkey, nor anything that is your neighbor's"

RobLevi and those of his ilk specialize in bombing Muslims back to the stone age and then deriding their lack of accomplishment. Tragically they have conned America into joining them in this despicable venture whose underlying aim is to preserve Israel’s illegal occupations and settlement expansion. And isn’t bombing brave? It takes great courage to rain bombs, missiles, etc from above down on helpless Muslim civilians as was done in Gaza, Afghanistan, Iraq, Yemen, Somalia, Pakistan, Lebanon, etc. 9/11 was a revenge attack for our subsidizing Israeli atrocities, and those who celebrated were the Israel-Firsters who then could morph America into the uniformly despised criminal state of Israel. Our founding fathers would puke.

hmmmm ... WillBPigVomit is still unhappy that his side lost the election for the House in November, and is terrified of the high likelihood that enablers of Jew-hatred will lose the Senate as well, in addition to losing the White House, in the 2012 election. Too bad, UnterSchtupper, it sucks to be you.

Posted By: hmmmm ... WillBPigVomit is still unhappy that his side lost the election for the House in November, | February 20, 2011 at 03:11 PM

To "Hmmm" What makes you think I'm a Democrat? I vote for America-Firsters regardless of party. I like both Ron and Rand Paul. Obama, initially thought to be up to taking on the Israel-Firsters, is a big hypocritical disappointment as shown by this insane veto. I'm against Zionist-occupied government which is destroying our country, making us hated throughout the world.

Willbedhimmi, the root cause of this war is Arab rejection of a Jewish State.
Claiming that these territories are occupied by Israelis is a major lie. These territories are occupied by jihadist squatters.

Arik, the root cause is Jewish greed for Arab Land. The entire world knows this, as shown at the UN Friday where only Zionist-occupied Washington supported the illegal Jewish settlements inhabited by radical extremist warmongering fundamentalist squatters. The Arab/Muslim world has long had a peace plan on the table and as revealed recently, Palestinian leaders have made brave generous compromises all to no avail because your ilk believe your god loves warmongering land-thieves.

RobLevi, talking about palestinian accomplishments you might forgot that Israel basically keeps palestinians in concentration camps for all these 63 years. I wonder how many accomplishments jews did sitting in concentration camps in Hitler's Germany? Can you list one here? Can you recall just one (not even Nobel prize laureate), but a Jew who did a great scientific research while being in Auschwitz? I would be ashamed even mentioning Palestinians in the way you do, because this is a height of hypocrisy.

GetOnGetOffOrGetOutOfTheWay, no one will nuck Israel, because it does not worth it. It will do absolutely nothing besides killing bunch of innocent jews. Which will help Israel to kill even more palestinians and grab even more land. And in this case, no one will condemn Israel and America will send there 100 times more weaponry.
What really concerns me, that instead, they can nuck the U.S. Most likely New York. Why? Because it will be like 911, but 1000 times worse. As a result, America may, indeed, wake up and stop supporting Israel. I live in New York and, quite possible, I will not see that day. The sad part is, that Obama administration understands it all very well (this is why so much noise about WMD), however, does nothing.

Kitty Litter and Flatus in Publicus join their favorite past-time -deligitimizing the interests of the negotiation partners. Bad way to get to any lasting agreement. Good way to get to war. It is 63 years too late to go back to the housing conditions of 1948. You woke up too late to facts on the ground. Massive population movement will bring war withing weeks. There is Gaza - on its own - never going to be contiguous part og West Bank. There are the Great Palestinian states of Lebanon, Syria, and Jordan -which will not relocate into the West Bank. And there is the West Bank itself - willing to trade away the Arab narrative of being eternal pawns in the boodbath to recapture Jerusalem. Sorry. The West Bank Palestinians prefer cooperation with Israel than Islamo-Fascist rule. Jihadi psychopathic terrorists not welcome here. Prediction: the West Bank makes its separate peace. Everyone stays put. In the reality of 2011.

President Clinton left President Bush a budget surplus but since 9/11 America has been going bankrupt fighting all these wars which are not only unnecessary but counterproductive big time. We were hit on 9/11 because of our support for Israel which illegally occupies Palestine plus parts of Syria and Lebanon. Professor Robert A. Pape writes in The Christian Science Monitor magazine 12/13/10 that suicide terrorists are driven by foreign occupations in Muslim lands. This is why our subsequent occupations of Afghanistan and Iraq did us more harm than good. Then to top it off, although hypocritically pretending we were even-handed in the Middle East conflict, we stood alone in the world at the UN on 2/18/11, a day that will live in infamy, and supported the illegal Jewish settlements on stolen Arab land which serve to make Israel’s brutal sadistic occupations permanent.

It is a bloody shame that all of the USA media have failed to criticise the US-President's disgraceful act in commanding Clintons and Rice,Susan role in voting at the UNO most recently. No doubt that post-cablegate Clinton will be getting her diplomatic forces to spin another un-explainable, explainable!!!

Of course the media has been silent. CNN fired Rick Sanchez for pointing out that the Jews control the media. After the Obama administration voted all alone at the UN to support Israeli settlements (after hypocritically pretending to oppose them), it was reported by the AP that the US consulate in Jerusalem the next day restricted travel for staff members in some areas of the West Bank due to Palestinian protests. Anti-American hatred is increasing. Just what we need. Of course the Zionists are ecstatic.

Whenever you see will posting,you know that the circus is in town.
I love these whiny postings.A few million Jews control everything.Maybe if you worked as hard and took the risks we take, you might be able to do more than whine on a meaningless website.Little will, I wish Israel had 10 times the nukes they have today. No, make that a gazillion times more.Interesting how other countries think twice before they try to wipe you off the face of the earth when they know they would cease to exist.
BTW, have you condemned the Iranian nuke program?They have enough oil to give it away to their own people for free for hundreds of years and can export a huge amount of oil to the rest of the world for generations but they need nuclear power for electricity.Of course they do.
And Ive told you before with no response from you, if Israel wants land,they can take it. It would take them about 2 days to take over Jordan if they wanted more land. Lebanon would take about a week and I don't know why they would care about Syria. Saudi Arabia would take 20 minutes so you keep whining about those land hungry Jews.Cry me a river. I bet the land YOU live on was stolen.Give your home back before you demand that others do.
And to GetIdiot, the Jews were a major source of funding for the Revolutionary War.That took about 2 seconds.

There needs to be balance of power in middle east, then this jewboy would not be talking about taking more territory. Iran is the one who is likely to balance it out. this will neutralize Israel power. This is going to happen shortly.

Obama isn't a liberal. He's simply a figurehead for those pulling his strings. The child like president is good for shooting some hoops and riling up the lower classes (people of color) but he isn't a leader. Who is pulling his strings?

Bankers.

Posted By: Obama isn't a liberal. He's simply a figurehead for those pulling his strings. The child like presid | February 21, 2011 at 03:11 PM

(London) -- A witness says Libyan warplanes are bombing protestors in several sections of Tripoli.
The witness, Adel Mohamed Saleh, told Al Jazeera television the bombing is indiscriminate and there are "many, many dead." He added that the jets seemed to be targeting "anyone who moves," including people in cars. The latest report follows earlier accounts of live ammunition being used on pro-democracy demonstrators in the Libyan capital. This of course coming from the same government that recently give their Lockerbie Bomber (Pan Am Flight 103, a hero’s welcome)... ALSO, Thankfully: Two Libyan Air Force fighter pilots defected on Monday and flew their jets to Malta where they told authorities they had been ordered to bomb protesters, Maltese government officials said. We can only hope that the Libyan people rise up, and send ugly Mumu Gadhafi, and his family to HELL.

neocon,take off your white sheet for a moment and reread what I said.The clown will keeps posting about land grubbing Jews,My simple point which was far too complex for you to understand is that if the Jews were land grubbing as he constantly insists, Israel would be all over the middle east taking land because the other middle east countries would be powerless against them.Why take a few acres of land in East Jerusalem when they could control much of the oil in Saudi Arabia.
And if you think that Iran will be the balancing power,Ive got a great deal on some swampland in the Sinai.
BTW, will who pays you.Is it Cair or a soros group.I promise not to tell them that they could go a lot better for what they're paying you.

Middle-East “Blowback” hits CHINA…Chinese human rights lawyer was hooded and beaten by five men as he left his home to go to a protest planned in the southern city of Guangzhou. Liu Shihui said he believed his attackers were domestic security officers – special police whose duties include monitoring dissidents – who had detained him previously. Human rights campaigners report that scores of activists across China were questioned or detained following an online call for "jasmine revolution" demonstrations in 13 cities on Sunday, including Guangzhou. "A man came to me and dragged me to the side of the street. Then four other guys jumped out of a van parked by the roadside and rushed over to me. They put a rice bag over my head and started beating me up," said Liu. "It lasted for about five minutes … I thought they were just going to beat me to death."
Liu, who spoke to the Guardian via a friend's phone because his mobile service was cut off on Sunday, said the men did not identify themselves. He believed they were domestic security police because of an incident in December, when he was snatched on the night of the Nobel peace prize ceremony. Many dissidents were detained or harassed owing to the authorities' anger that the jailed dissident Liu Xiaobo was being honoured.

Why America is dying: By taking marching orders from the Israel-Firsters and supporting Israeli criminality at the UN, we are digging ourselves deeper and deeper into a bottomless pit. Our carte blanche sponsorship of Israel has been detrimental to our national security in two ways: people around the world are radicalized against us and we are going bankrupt. Because we have subsidized Israel’s illegal sadistic occupations, we are targeted by terrorists as on 9/11, but even worse is the fact that under pressure from the Israel Lobby we became Israel's clone, invading and trashing Muslim countries to benefit Israeli expansionism, fomenting civil wars, blowing up people and homes, turning lives into nightmares and inspiring even more endless revenge attacks.